The Houston Rockets on Monday released 11-year guard Eric"Sleepy" Floyd and acquired swingman Mario Elie from the PortlandTrail Blazers for a second-round draft pick in 1995.
Floyd, 33, was waived to create room under the NBA salary cap.He averaged 11.5 points and 5.4 assists in six seasons with theRockets. In 52 games last season, he averaged 6.6 points and 2.5assists. Elie signed as a free agent with the Trail Blazers lastsummer and played in all 82 games. He averaged 8.6 points and 2.6rebounds. The attorney for former Michigan State basketball player ParishHickman said Hickman passed a lie-detector test last month that showshe received cash from Spartans booster Fred Tripp during his 1988-91stay at the university.
BOXING: Former world middleweight champion Marvelous MarvinHagler, 39, will be arraigned next week on a drunken-driving chargestemming from a July 8 incident in Bartlett, Mass.
FOOTBALL: Mike Mayweather, who rushed for 4,299 yards during hisfour-year career at West Point, has been granted early release fromactive duty to pursue a career with a professional team.
AUTO RACING: Stanley Smith, who was severely injured in the July25 DieHard 500 stock-car race, continues to improve at CarrawayMethodist Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala. His condition wasupgraded over the weekend from critical to guarded.
BOWLING: Pete Weber averaged 240 over eight games to take an11-pin lead over Hall of Famer Mark Roth in the $250,000 ChoiceHotels Summer Classic in Edmond, Okla. Amateur Sean Swanson wasthird, Ron Williams fourth and George Branham III fifth. Gene Stus averaged 231 for six games to take a 25-pin lead over DonGilman early in the first round of the $100,000 Pacific PBA SeniorOpen in Lakewood, Calif.
TENNIS: Former Stanford star Alex O'Brien upset seventh-seededMark Woodforde 7-6, 4-6, 6-2 in a first-round match of the $300,000Volvo Tennis/Los Angeles.
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